The USA was supposed to span the entire western hemisphere. What went wrong?

The USA was supposed to span the entire western hemisphere. What went wrong?

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It was?

Yes. It was widely believed that the US would conquer the entire western hemisphere by the year 1925.

We found out that cheap labor is worth more than direct claimancy to natural resources.

Yeah but that is a totally retarded concept that only a literal drooling idiot would believe was plausible

and you guys are doing a pretty good job, world is shittier than literally anything a man could dream 50 years ago

America could have annexed Mexico but opted not to out of disdain for brown people.

not annexing canada and starting a continental war of genocidal expansion to the tip of peru whilst iberia joins the axis in wwii and gets obliterated their, nuke north afrika and the middle east becomes an archaic mad max anarchistic dust bowl of feudalistic collissions/engagements

>not annexing canada
They tried once

The rest of the world isn't really important in the grand scheme of things.

And the world suffered from their failure.

Our destiny didn't manifest.

they're already too big to deal with themselves

you serious? but you already suck China´s cock at any oportunity you have. and we´re not even in the next century

By who? Imperialists in Europe?

Mexico is like 70% European by ancestry.

They didn't try that hard. The idea was to take bits of Ontario to give back to the British. In exchange, the Royal Navy would promise to stop kidnapping Americans and forcing them into naval service.

USA saw how fucking retarded Europeans were claiming land abroad and suffering from nationalist/independentist butthurt and unrest while the capitalists of the US realized its far more profitable to have a bunch of client states with their independent governments selling you raw materials while you sold manufactured shit back at them.

Of course they did try their hand at Empire though, and boy was that a failure. THEN they realized that allied states > colonies,

>70% of Mexico is half European or less by ancestry*
FTFY

This. They took the Philippines and saw what a shitshow direct imperialism could be, and then decided to just keep the small fry around them weak and pliable by economic means instead.

I wonder how the Americas would have turned out if Spain hadn't done such a bad job with its colonies. It'd be a much more interesting history had competent nations risen in South America rather than natives and exiled Spaniards trying to make states out of giant slave-based mining/sugar operations.

Costa Rica, Uruguay and Chile are literally the only competent latino nations.

america only succeeds because it can disintegrate so readily, abandon ship per-say.

Why is this board infested with all these shit-tier tripfags?

that filename

Canada whooped your ass into next week.

This, also disdain for Catholics. Also us was gonna annex canada but ww1 happened

Turns out America really sucks at war and conquest.

More like japan if you want to go by the numbers

Manifest destiny was vague bullshit used to justify greed and expansionism. It was bound to end.

On multiple occasions

The United States completed the idea of Manifest Destiny when they annihilated Mexico and had territory from coast to coast, and everything else was a bonus

it fostered public sentiment by placating to easily manipulatable manpower of greed by harping on taking another mans (terra nullius) generations of hard work, even if 80% is destroyed, the 20% you made was still 10% more than the next best option for the time

The idea of freedom was directly tied into land ownership at the time, and as the population exploded more land was necessary to feed the idea that all Americans had the oppurtunity of being "free"

Do you realize just how impossible it would be to govern such a massive continent with a single centralized government, before telecomunications?

We found out it was all shitty jungles, deserts and mountains and the Yuros had already plundered the land and people. Why bother?

That's one hell of a statement to make

Don't confuse Manifest Destiny and Monroe Doctrine for domination of a hemisphere.

He's not wrong, even when the idea hadn't come anywhere near fruition in the 1900's, people were writing that it would happen by 2000. There's an old letter floating around, which I can't seem to find, where it denotes the whole thing about how America would be in 2000 and not only was the President from fucking Montreal of all places, the U.S. owned all of the Americas and Europe.